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While dismissive of any concerns re latency today Mr Nelson said; “I think you will see us have data centres in Europe, Asia and Australia in the next two years,” acknowledging that there were “speed of light” issues in terms of the ability to serve up data globally from the company’s two US data centres.

The other challenge in Australia however is likely to be educating the market about cloud computing in general.

The Sage Business Index which was released in Sydney this week suggests that cloud computing “remains largely an enigma to business” with only 53 per cent of respondents to a survey having even heard of the term. The survey, of 500 business people found only about one in five companies had any idea what cloud computing meant in practice and only one in 12 had any experience of actually using public cloud computing services.

There was hope though. Once the respondents had cloud computing explained to then, almost half said they might be interested in trying it.

The author attended SuiteWorld as a guest of NetSuite.

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Beverley Head is a Sydney-based freelance writer who specialises in exploring how and why technology changes everything - society, business, government, education, health. Beverley started writing about the business of technology in London in 1983 before moving to Australia in 1986. She was the technology editor of the Financial Review for almost a decade, and then became the newspaper's features editor before embarking on a freelance career, during which time she has written on a broad array of technology related topics for the Sydney Morning Herald, Age, Boss, BRW, Banking Day, Campus Review, Education Review, Insite and Government Technology Review. Beverley holds a degree in Metallurgy and the Science of Materials from Oxford University and a deep affection for things which are shaken not stirred.

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